Auslan: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Foundation to Level 2 / Communicating / Creating
Content description
Express imaginative ideas and visual thinking through the use of familiar signs, mime and gestures, with a focus on emotions, appearance and actions
Elaborations
using iconic signs to create variations to actions involved in familiar nursery rhymes, such as ‘Incy Wincy Spider’
exploring emotions through the use of NMFs, for example by re-enacting a familiar scenario and modifying emotions each time, for example by switching from fear to excitement to anger
depicting the movement of people, animals or means of transport by using handshapes in creative ways
creating amusing sequences of signs using a fixed handshape, such as the index finger ‘point’,
PRO2 THINK PRO1 SHY?
Do you think I’m shy?
using gestures and modelled signs to create short skits that convey emotions and behaviours associated with characters from familiar stories or rhymes
enacting the movements and characteristics of a particular animal through the use of constructed action
